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I recently migrated from Windows7 to Kubuntu 10.0.4. In many ways, I'm loving the change. (I never knew it could be such a seemless process to write/test scripts!)

One of the few things that is causing me any hangup is that none of the passwords that were saved in my browser are available (obviously, since it's a completely separate installation). Is it possible to export my passwords from the Windows instance of Chrome and then import them into the Linux version?

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As Neal said, the folder User Data is the one to look for. If you want a software solution try the extension Lastpass (or at the Google site). It allows you to save and restore password in Google Chrome as well as in Firefox, IE and Safari.

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I've been using LastPass for 2 years and it works great! Got it on 6 browsers on 4 different OS's – TheLQ Jul 17 '10 at 17:10
Lastpass looks perfect! Thanks! – Jeffrey Blake Jul 17 '10 at 21:17
It seems that lastpass is not longer able to export the passwords to chrome -.- Is there already a new solution? – MartinVonMartinsgrün Mar 2 '12 at 7:38
@mmm... This is almost a month after you asked, but I wanted to answer you: I don't think you need to export the passwords with Lastpass. Just install the extension onto whichever browser you use and they will be available. From any system. The passwords are stored in their encrypted vault, so you don't have to worry about any of that on your end. – Jeffrey Blake Mar 30 '12 at 17:33
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You could try XMarks.

I'm fairly sure that if you just copied the profile (ie the stuff in C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default)from Windows to Linux, you would get everything working correctly, without any export/ import.

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+1 for identifying the file I'd need. – Jeffrey Blake Jul 17 '10 at 21:17
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If you set up Chrome to sync your passwords via your Google account, then you can use this Linux-only solution: http://thebigbrowser.blogspot.com/2012/04/linux-export-chrome-passwords-to-csv.html

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